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WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".

Month: May 2008

Phoenix Foreclosure Fair

ACORN Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Personal Writings May 5, 2008 by wade

New Orleans Alicia Russell is one of our great ACORN leaders from Phoenix and the ACORN Western Regional Representative on the ACORN National Board. She works hard, takes the organization very, very seriously, is a pleasure to work with, and never ever calls me at home or on a Saturday evening. I was sitting at …

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Postscript Victory

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Personal Writings May 4, 2008 by wade

New Orleans     The huge story by Mimi Schwartz in the New York Times Magazine section ran on June 10, 2007, almost a year ago under the banner of “Shop Stewards on Fantasy Island,” and at the time seemed to be an opening salvo in a major initiative by SEIU, as the USA’s largest union …

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Organizing Universals

Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing Personal Writings May 4, 2008 by wade

Frankfurt      Leaving India and reflecting on my most recent days in Mumbai, I was struck by some of the small, but poignant things that I found in some ways quietly moving, because they spoke to the “universals” of organizing and the work. I was struck by simple things. Watching Cheryl Deutsch and Bilip …

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